US Patent Issued to FCX Solar on March 18 for "System and method for flexible solar tracker and testing" (Hawaii, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,868, issued on March 18, was assigned to FCX Solar LLC (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

"System and method for flexible solar tracker and testing" was invented by Christopher Thomas Needham (Mountain View, Hawaii) and Frank Carl Oudheusden (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a technique of configuring flexible photovoltaic tracker systems with high damping and low angle stow positions. Under dynamic environmental loads implementing a high amount of damping (e.g., greater than 25% of critical damping, greater than 50% of critical damping) or a very high amount of damping (e.g., 100% or greater of critical dampin...